Top 50 teenage/high school movies

Have at it. I've only seen 30 of the top 50, including Mean Girls! ;D
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Entertainment Weekly recently compiled a list of the top 50 high school movies of all time. In what EW called a list of â€œbeloved flicks about the traumatic teen years,â€ The Breakfast Club unexpectedly toppled fan favorite Fast Times at Ridgemont High for the top spot.

We see it as we want to see it — in the simplest terms, the most convenient definition: The Breakfast Club is the best high school movie of all time. It may lack the scope of its peers — the drinking, the driving, the listless loitering in parking lots — as well as any scenes that actually take place during school. But if hell is other people — and high school is hell — then John Hughes is the genre's Sartre, and this is his No Exit.

Breakfast Club star Molly Ringwald managed to make the top 50 list an astounding three times.

Breakfast Club ahead of American Graffiti?
Breakfast Club would rank behind about 35 movies on this list.
At least.
Risky Business ... Gregory's Girl ... Hoop Dreams ... Fame.
These movies dwarf Breakfast Club.

Breakfast Club ahead of American Graffiti?
Breakfast Club would rank behind about 35 movies on this list.
At least.
Risky Business ... Gregory's Girl ... Hoop Dreams ... Fame.
These movies dwarf Breakfast Club.

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Breakfast Club is not only in its right place here, it's among the best movies I've ever seen, period, for accomplishing what it set out to do.

Fast Times was it for me before Breakfast Club came out. I think it's a perfect 1-2.